MSI GS70 high-end gaming laptop: SA price revealed

MSI has confirmed to MyGaming the retail pricing and availability of their new GS70 gaming laptop powerhouse.

It will be available in South Africa in August 2013 and will carry a recommended retail price of R25,000, putting it in the firing line of Dell’s Alienware M17x R4, and MSI’s own GT60 gaming notebook.

The GS70 is a brand new product based on next-generation hardware from Intel and Nvidia, and includes several features normally found on much more expensive laptops bound for business use.

It will be one of the lightest 17.3-inch gaming laptops around, weighing in at 2.65kg with a full house including a 2.5-inch hard drive, an mSATA SSD, and a fully backlit keyboard.

Battery life on the GS70 is quoted at four hours playing HD video, however the Nvidia Optimus technology should enable longer battery life when doing less intensive tasks.

MSI GS70 front shot

MSi GS70 backlit keyboard

MSI GS70 Display Matrix feature

MSI GS70 full specs sheet

Brutish specifications

The GS70 ships with a 17.3-inch LCD boasting 1080p resolution and an anti-glare finish to minimise reflections. There’s also Intel’s latest Core i7-4700QM quad-core processor with boost speeds of up to 3.4GHz, as well as 16GB of DDR3-1600 memory, and Nvidia’s Geforce GTX765 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory.

A rather unique feature among gaming laptops is the ability to support triple monitors. The GS70 has two Displayport 1.2 ports and one HDMI 1.4a port. These ports can feed an extra three monitors with resolutions up to 1080p at 60Hz refresh rates and can be used in addition to the monitor already built into the laptop itself.